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The Notre-Dame-de-Grâce chapel of Équemauville is a Catholic chapel built between 1600 and 1615 by the bourgeois and sailors of Honfleur. It replaces a primitive chapel founded before 1023 by Richard II, Duke of Normandy, after a vow made during a storm at sea. This first building had disappeared in a landslide of the cliff overlooking the Seine estuary.

Located on the plateau of Grace, in the commune of Equemauville but close to Honfleur, the present chapel is a place of pilgrimage and maritime devotion. It preserves ex-votos, models of boats offered by the sailors in thanks for rescues, as well as an organ installed in 1990 by the factor Dupont. Outside, the bells recall its role in the processions.

Classified as a historical monument by order of October 10, 1938, the chapel today belongs to the commune of Equemauville. Its architecture and location bear witness to Norman piety linked to the sea, perpetuating an uninterrupted cult since the eleventh century. Sources also indicate precise coordinates (5206 Grace's Cote) and a location confirmed by the Merimée base.

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